03-25-2015, 03:26 PM
Three commercial aircraft crashes have now occurred worldwide within the last 3 months, under very unusual circumstances. That's NOT including the 777 shot out of the sky over Ukraine last year.
What do you make of it? How do you feel about so little communication between pilots and ATC on these doomed flights?
The Germanwings flight on March 24 reaches its cruising altitude of 38K feet and minutes later begins a controlled descent into mountainous terrain. NO communication from the cockpit.
In this day and age, how can critical flight info still be stored on 'black boxes' which can be damaged or lost, instead of having that info real-time steamed to the 'cloud'?
An agonizing 8 minutes for those passengers yesterday (if they were conscious).
RIP to all.
What do you make of it? How do you feel about so little communication between pilots and ATC on these doomed flights?
The Germanwings flight on March 24 reaches its cruising altitude of 38K feet and minutes later begins a controlled descent into mountainous terrain. NO communication from the cockpit.
In this day and age, how can critical flight info still be stored on 'black boxes' which can be damaged or lost, instead of having that info real-time steamed to the 'cloud'?
An agonizing 8 minutes for those passengers yesterday (if they were conscious).
RIP to all.